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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I ... has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking ... First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount of jetlag we were all feeling from flying back to campus"]In the spirit

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  that IAP. But this quarantine I decided to go all-in and get my money ... I genuinely thought I had to peel my skin in order to get the glue off ... to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... department] with Prof. Nittai Bergman. We tried to find a way to analyze how ... minor in 14 [layman's terms: Management Science with a minor in Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I ... DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... you do decide that you absolutely need to send something in, other than

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... newsrooms are full of women, all those women are less likely to be in top ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  I get to think about what goes on through an increasingly tech savvy ... get to make them! But what do I actually do? I've been learning a lot of Ruby on Rails to figure out how all the data actually works together

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... here. I'm also glad just to know I'm in college getting an education, so ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  (sigh). But, I did get to hang out with my friends in House 1/Chocolate ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006